Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Audio. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (audio) on YouTube. " Take Me Home, Country Roads ", also known simply as " Country Roads ", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August ...
Songwriter. Years active. 1958–1997. Labels. Capitol, RCA, Monument, Nugget. Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10. [1]
Amarillo, Texas-based Susan Gibson wrote the song's first lyrics in 1993, on her first visit back home after leaving for forestry school at the University of Montana. [3] [4] She left the notebook containing the lyrics at home by mistake when she returned to school; her mother found it and included it in a care package, inspiring Gibson to complete a song along the themes of leaving home. [3]
Before He Cheats. " Before He Cheats " is a song by American singer Carrie Underwood from her debut studio album, Some Hearts (2005). Written by Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear, it was released as the fourth single from the album. The song tells the story of a woman taking revenge on her unfaithful partner. The song became an enormous crossover ...
The song's lyrics tell of a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home. [4] The twists of the song's lyrics (the protagonist, just 24 hours from reaching home, falls in love with a woman when he stops driving for the night, leaving his current partner twisting in the wind) are echoed in the music's tonal ambiguity, a common feature of Bacharach's ...
Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her. "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" is a song written by Dean Dillon, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1986 as the first single from the album [#7 []]. The song was originally recorded by Dillon, whose version peaked at number 25 on ...
It was nearly left off the album until Key wrote the song's anthemic refrain. While the song's subject matter appears to be romantic in nature, the song takes root in the band's longing for home: for the group, "Ocean Avenue" represented a farewell to the sunsets and youthful days in Florida, where they lived, rehearsed, and grew up near the beach.
Dave Dudley. Dave Dudley (born David Darwin Pedruska; [ 1 ] May 3, 1928 – December 22, 2003) [ 2 ] was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass. His signature song was " Six Days on the Road ", and he is also remembered for "Vietnam Blues", "Truck Drivin ...